Alexander, Lloyd. "Fantasy as Images: A Literary View." Language Arts (April 1978): 440-46. Alexander explains how fantasy can teach readers about real life.

——. "The Flat-Heeled Muse." In Children and Literature: Views and Reviews.

Edited by Virginia Haviland. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1973. (First printed in Horn Book [April 1965]: 141-46.) Alexander discusses his sources for his ideas and some of his rules for writing successful fantasy.

"The Grammar of Story." In Celebrating Children's Books. Edited by Betsy Hearne and Marilyn Kaye. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1981, pp. 3-13. This article offers some insight into Alexander's creation of beautiful prose, although some of how grammar works in a good story is mysterious.

——. "High Fantasy and Heroic Romance." HornBook (December 1971): 57784. Alexander offers defense of heroic fantasy as a source of good reading for children.

——. "A Matter of Speaking." In The Voice of the...